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Five Years with the Four Seasons

Friday, November 12th, 2010
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around

In 2004, Broadway insiders weren’t excited about a new musical based on the lives of the Four Seasons. Other so-called “juke box” musicals—most notably Movin’

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Here Come the Musicals! 2009′s NYMF Starts September 28

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
by Woman Around Town on Playing Around

A pop musical set in a boy’s boarding school, the discovery of the world’s last two surviving vampires, fantasy football set to music, a lonely

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The Broadway Phenomenon That Is Jersey Boys

Monday, March 23rd, 2009
by Charlene Giannetti on Playing Around

By Charlene Giannetti When I bought tickets to see Jersey Boys two months after it won the 2006 Tony Award for Best Broadway Musical, I

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